- #Acronis True Image WD Edition software software#
- #Acronis True Image WD Edition software windows 7#
Thanks to your comments, I have solved the backup problem for my Dell Latitude E6500 laptop, by buying an apparently new WD product (the box is © 2012): a “portable hard drive” called the “My Passport,” with a 500GB capacity, and dimensions of about 4.25" x 3.25" x 0.5." (There also is a 1TB version, which - based on the size of the box - is the same size as the 500GB version that I bought.) Nope… Acronis WD edition is not for external drives, not even WD externalsīare in mind this is a freeware only for WD internal drives so there are certain limitations Most likely but I’m not sure since I have not used that version Thanks for any comments, suggestions, or other help. But maybe having both “wants” isn’t possible.) On the other hand, if I boot from the WD Acronis Recovery CD I have created and then try to recover, the Recovery CD cannot find the Apricorn hard disk.Ī) If I acquire a commercial Acronis version instead of the Western Digital Acronis version, would that solve my inability to restore backups from my Apricorn external hard disk?ī) If I acquire a Western Digital external hard disk, would I be able to use the Western Digital Acronis to back up and restore my C: and D: partitions?Ĭ) Is there any way that I have overlooked to enable the WD Acronis version not only to back up to my external Apricorn hard disk but also to restore from from my Apricorn hard disk? (I wanted the WD Acronis version not because it was free, but because it apparently was somewhat simpler than the commercial version, and I wanted to continue using the Apricorn external hard disk because it is less than two thirds full. But there doesn’t seem to be any way to recover them (which may merely reflect that the Windows7 internal hard disk doesn’t need either its C: or D: partitions replaced by the backup images).
#Acronis True Image WD Edition software windows 7#
And while I am in Windows 7 and have opened WesternDigital Acronis > Disk Recovery > Disk backups button, both images are listed. Since my initial post in this thread, I HAVE backed up my C: and D: partitions to the Apricorn external disk.
#Acronis True Image WD Edition software software#
Taken together, do your two statements mean that Acronis Western Digital Edition software cannot backup to AND restore from my Apricorn external disk? My laptop has three USB ports in various locations on the side of the laptop. What would be more direct than that, for an external disk?Ģ) “if connected to an USB enclosure it might not work.” What does “enclosure” mean here? I think that some sort of case would surround any external hard disk. There is a USB cable from the Apricorn external disk (which uses a Hitachi hard disk) to a USB port on my laptop computer. But since I am not knowledgeable, I need a clarification of your statements,ġ) “The software requires the computer to have the drive directly connected to the computer.” I don’t know what “directly” means. * Mouse or other pointing device (recommended).Īcronis True Image WD Edition rescue media has the following hardware requirements: * CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation In addition Acronis True Image WD Edition requires the following hardware: The hardware requirements of Acronis True Image WD Edition correspond to the minimum requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Acronis True Image WD Edition. The Acronis TrueImage WD Edition UsersGuide, page 8, Minimum System Requirements, are: The Apricorn software was EzGigII, which was a simplified variant of Acronis. With my C840, I make image backups to an Apricorn external hard disk made by Hitachi. (I also am not sure of the meaning of “rescue media.”) And since I won’t be cloning anything - I will do backups and restorations only - I don’t know if the Attached device requirement applies to my intended use of Acronis True Image WD Edition.
My problem is that although I can guess, I don’t know for sure the meaning of “Attached Western Digital device” in the Minimum System Requirements section of the Acronis True Image WD Edition User Guide.
On my E6500, can I use the Western Digital Edition of Acronis True Image for partition backups to (and restorations from) a non-WD external hard disk, or must both the source and the target be WD drives? I have _ no _ expectation of ever cloning anything. I am in the process of setting it up, as a replacement for my Dell Latitude C840, running WinXPsp3.įor the purpose of making and restoring backup images of my E6500’s partitions C: and D:to an Apricorn external disk (which happens to be Hitachi), from the WD website I downloaded (but did not install) Acronis True Image WD Edition, and its User Guide. I have recently acquired a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Western Digital Hard drive, running Windows 7sp1.
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